The Retirement Café

One of the retirement income strategies that I didn't discuss in my last post is Time Segmentation (TS). (See Unraveling Retirement Str...

In Pure and Mixed Strategies , I noted that we can make life simpler for retirees by winnowing out dominated strategies and strategies that ...

Retirement researchers Michael Kitces and Wade Pfau published papers on glide paths in the Journal of Financial Planning in 2014 and 2015, ...

In a few recent posts, I suggested how game theory might be used to gain a different perspective on the Social Security claiming decision ( ...

Sharp-eyed readers will notice that I have tweaked my blog format to include some of my favorite posts from other retirement blogs. Retireme...

A while back, I had in mind to write a series of posts on how game theory might be useful for analyzing retirement income strategies. I wrot...

I had an interesting discussion this past week at Adviser Perspectives with two financial advisers who are frustrated by the fact that there...

Long TIPS bond ladders demonstrate the challenge of matching liabilities in the more distant future, say, funding the last half of a 30-year...

In my previous post, First Derivatives and Second Moments , I showed, with more math than should be tolerated on this blog, that a bond fund...

A common argument that bond funds and bond ladders are identical involves their duration. Duration, though precisely defined mathematically ...